I have a 6 y.o son who was diagnosed in January with severe early childhood onset retinal dystrophy. He has poor closeup vision and struggles with dark and low contrast environments. He also has a very hard time spending the entire night in his own bed, in spite of numerous different experiments with nightlights, touch-actuated bedside lights, etc. Even if he falls asleep in his bed at 8 or so, he will be in our bed by 11:30 PM, and even attempts to move him while sleeping might only keep him in his bed for an hour tops before he wanders back. If he starts his evening sleeping in his older sister's large bed, he'll likely sleep there all night. Being alone in his bed seems to be the big stumbling block.

It's hard for me to know how much of this is due to his visual impairment versus just standard childhood desire to sleep in his parents' bed. For those parents of visually impaired children, have you dealt with similar cosleeping issues? How did you help get them more comfortable sleeping all night in their own beds?

I have many other questions to ask this community about my son's journey ahead, but felt this was an easy topic to start with.